Our entire childhood was made up of watching Disney animated movies over and over again, and none more so than The Lion King.

We had always assumed that Mufasa and Scar were indeed brothers in the movie, because Scar calls Mufasa his brother; and Mufasa says “brother” to Scar too (even though it’s when he’s being killed by him) — so you can count us as one of the many whose childhood director Rob Minkoff and producer Don Hahn just ruined.

In an interview with Hello Giggles, they revealed that the two male lions of the pride weren’t brothers at all.

“[While making the movie] we talked about the fact that it was very likely [Scar and Mufasa] would not have both the same parents,” they revealed. “The way lions operate in the wild…when the male lion gets old, another rogue lion comes and kills the head of the pride. What that does is it causes the female lions to go into heat [to reproduce], and then the new younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies. Now he’s the new lion that’s running the pride.”

“There was always this thing about well, how do you have these two [male] lions? Occasionally there are prides that do have two male lions, in an interesting dynamic because they’re not equals [since they don't have the same parents],” Rob and Don continued.

They add, “One lion will always kind of be off in the shadows.” THAT’S SCAR BTW!

“We were trying to use those animal truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa couldn’t really be from the same gene pool. In fact, that’s what [Scar] says. There’s a line, he goes, ‘I’m from the shallow end of the gene pool.’ When he’s talking to Mufasa, when Mufasa gets mad at him for not coming up to the coronation of Simba.”

If you haven’t heard the big news, Disney is releasing a special edition of The Lion King next month — and we are so excited!

The movie, which is probably on your top five list of favorite Disney movies ever (don’t deny it), actually has so many secrets behind it.

Did you know that at the same time The Lion King was being made, so was Pocahontas?

A “B-Team” of Disney animators worked on the film, since the “A-Team” had been working on Pocahontas, the film that the company thought would be more successful.

“The head of the studio got up and basically said, ‘Pocahontas’ is a home run. It’s ‘West Side Story’ meets ‘Romeo and Juliet’ meets ‘Dances with Wolves’ and ‘Lion King,’ on the other hand, is clearly an experiment,’” director Rob Minkoff remembered during a recent interview.

“Yeah, our pitch was Moses meets Joseph and ‘Hamlet’ in Africa’ with music by Elton John,” producer Don Hahn joked about it.

There was a funny deal struck too — if Lion King made $50 million at the box office, the studio head was going to get down on his hands and knees.

The Lion King made nearly $1 billion at the box office, with Pocahontas following way behind at only $346 million worldwide.